Andrew Chounding

In its latest effort to shore-up supply, Water Corporation is adding thousands of plastic hexagons to dams to stop drinking water from being lost to evaporation.

On a trip to the West Australian town of Boyup Brook, musician John Matthews was searching for a guitar, but found much more.

Jak Rice went to shearing school hoping to build a career in wool, but what started as a necessity quickly became a passion as he works to improve his daily tally.

After a truck rollover killed more than 200 sheep in Western Australia's South West, a transport lobby group says the state of regional roads affects more than just the freight sector.

A country medical service facing liquidation angers creditors by offering them 30 per cent of what they are owed to escape a half-a-million-dollar debt while pushing ahead with plans for a new clinic.

Aboriginal people have used honeypot ants to treat everything from cuts to colds for generations. Now modern science is catching up, finding the ants could hold the key to new medical treatments.

The Department of Communities says it never had any intention of evicting 74-year-old Melba Munmurrie from public housing in Coolgardie, despite telling her she would be evicted on Wednesday.

The 74-year-old woman says she will be forced to live on the streets if evicted weeks out from Christmas, while WA's housing minister calls it a matter for the courts.

Milder conditions have today assisted firefighters, who are working to contain a bushfire in and around Chapman Valley and Northampton that has burned more than 1,085 hectares since Sunday.

The Shire of Dundas says the profits from Norseman's IGA, which it purchased for $1.43 million, will be reinvested into the community.

Heavy rain comes to the aid of firefighters battling a bushfire that has already burned more than 18,000 hectares in WA and has been threatening the main sealed road in and out of the state. 

Historic events of the past 120 years were among the factors that led people to Cundeelee, in WA's Goldfields, where a large native title claim has just been determined.

State and federal consumer affairs ministers vote to implement compulsory country of origin labelling of seafood in all hospitality venues.

Jurors deliberated for about two hours before finding 57-year-old Shane Plunkett acted in self-defence when he shot a 38-year-old man last year after a violent altercation.

The trial of a man who claims he shot another man in self-defence has heard from the shooter for the first time after his police interview was played to the jury.  

A West Australian man claims he shot another man in self-defence in the days after an alleged axe attack in a small outback town. 

The stoush between a West Australian man who'd 'had enough' of hoons driving around his property and the man who he shot with a stolen firearm has been heard in a district court trial.

The Shire of Dundas considers reversing its decision to cut support to its Norseman-based GP of 17 years after the FIFO medical service it backed to replace him runs into financial trouble.

Previously, when tourists stopped at Coolgardie's visitor centre for souvenirs, there were none. It gave Rose Mitchell the idea of making some. Then, with her town's support, her dream of creating wearable art, and a high-end fashion show, became a reality.

Hundreds of households could be forced to pay thousands of dollars to replace private power poles on their property after Western Power deemed them "defective".

Mathematician Adam Spencer says the string of lucky wins is a statistical aberration. It comes almost a year to the day a syndicate of 20 Kalgoorlie miners won a $53 million jackpot that saw them each take home about $2.6m.

WA's Electoral Commissioner concedes the move to preferential voting and the direct election of mayors has left candidates and communities across the state waiting longer than usual for local government poll results.

A shark hooked by the group bit the front of the boat causing it to partially deflate and take on water, damaging the fuel lines and engine.

The rider in his 50s was competing in the Kalgoorlie Desert Race just outside the city — about 600km east of Perth — when he crashed at about 9.30am AWST.

A WA medical practice is at the centre of a pay dispute with doctors and medical service providers who say they are owed thousands of dollars in unpaid fees.